RFC: policy for translated docs (was Re: policy for translated manpages for section 1 ?)

1997-12-08 Thread Enrique Zanardi
Proposed policy (for future Debian releases >= 2.1 ): If translated documentation for a package foo is available, it should be included in that package, not in a general package for translated documentation (Example: Section 1 man pages in manpages- packages. They should be included in the releva

Re: policy for translated manpages for section 1 ?

1997-12-08 Thread Yann Dirson
Enrique Zanardi writes: > On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Yann Dirson wrote: > > I guess translated manpages should be included in the relevant > > packages, with probably a notice as to which version of the software > > they document. > > The con is that packages get very big with all translated documen

Re: Policy Weekly Issue #4/6: Secure maintainer scripts

1997-12-08 Thread Guy Maor
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Christian Schwarz wrote: > I don't think this is good enough. The point isn't really to do this, it's > to create files in /tmp in a secure manner. Uh, yes: > > The Debian base distribution provides the `tempfile' utility for > > use by scripts f

Re: Policy Weekly Issue #4/1: Bash vs Bourne shell

1997-12-08 Thread Guy Maor
Santiago Vila Doncel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > > ``The shell `/bin/sh' may be symbolic link to any POSIX compatible > > shell. If a script uses non-POSIX features the appropriate shell > > has to be specified in the first line o

Re: Policy Weekly Issue #4/3: Guidelines for Motif applications

1997-12-08 Thread Guy Maor
Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Note, that packages that require non-free Motif libraries can't go > into the main distribution. Add to this paragraph: If your package is free otherwise, it should go into contrib. Otherwise it must go into non-free. And